PlayStation has the Gran Turismo franchise, with GT6 set to come out on the PlayStation 3 later this year. Xbox has Forza, its long-running series of driving simulation games, the fifth installment of which will come to the new Xbox One. Yet realistic driving sims need not be shackled to consoles.

2K Sports, the company behind titles including the NBA 2K Series and the MLB 2K Series, says it is climbing into driving games. It is producing a new title called 2K Drive with help from Lucid, the firm that helped to create the Project Gotham Racing games. Drive will launch in September on iOS, the Apple mobile platform, so players soon will be racing through the streets on their iPhones and iPads.

2K Games dropped the trailer seen above today. Judging by the early animations, 2K Drive appears to be much more of a fully realized racing sim—with players earning and buying cars and tearing around corners with realistic physics—than a simpler arcade-style setup you might expect from a mobile game. There's not an official car list yet, but the teaser includes the new SRT Viper, Camaro, Fiat 500, McLaren MP4, as well as F1-style racing cars, classic muscle, and more.

Taking a little bit of Top Gear inspiration, 2K Drive also features games such as car football (soccer) as well as customizable challenges for multiple players competing online. And like the newest Gran Turismo and Forza games, 2K Drive has "lifestyle" aspirations—that is, to be a place for cars nuts not only to do hot laps on famous racetracks in their dream cars, but also to track the latest automotive news and talk shop with other drivers.

Having spent a few too many hours with the third and fourth games of the Forza franchise, in which one is limited to a fairly small number of racetracks, I'm most excited to see the broad range of courses available in 2K Drive—you'll see in the trailer that the developers are building in the ability to make speed runs on the Bonneville Salt Flats, for instance. And I, for one, am ready to (mentally) escape the creeping subway car in which I spend my daily commute to post sick lap times on my phone.